W.H.L. Wallace

William Hervey Lamme Wallace (8 July 1821-10 April 1862) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Shiloh.

Biography
William Hervey Lamme Wallace was born in Urbana, Ohio in 1821, and he served as a US Army lieutenant during the Mexican-American War, fighting at the Battle of Buena Vista and a few minor clashes. He became a district attorney in Illinois in 1853, and, when the American Civil War broke out, he joined the Union Army and was given command of a brigade. He took part in Ulysses S. Grant's capture of Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee in the spring of 1862 before fighting at the Battle of Shiloh, where he and Benjamin Prentiss defended the "Hornet's Nest" from twelve Confederate assaults. When his division was surrounded, he was mortally wounded and carried to his wife, dying three days later.